The two men in black loitering outside Richard Meier’s glass tower, hard by the West Side Highway, sprang into action as soon as I reached the end of Perry Street: “The entrance is around the corner!”
They weren’t hustlers, but rather doormen directing customers to Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s latest restaurant. It’s on the ground floor facing Read More
Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or stack of books) to keep one company at the beach or in the mountains or in the air-conditioned idyll Read More
Back when summer actually meant a few months of relaxing and down time to New Yorkers, one of the most treasured rituals was the weekly trip to the neighborhood bookstore, to choose a new book (or stack of books) to keep one company at the beach or in the mountains or in the air-conditioned idyll Read More
For
the American painter Alex Katz (born 1927), this has been a remarkable summer.
In June, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Me., organized a
comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s diminutive collages (over 70 in
number), most of them dating from the 1950′s; and in July, the Farnsworth Art
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For the American painter Alex Katz (born 1927), this has been a remarkable summer. In June, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Me., organized a comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s diminutive collages (over 70 in number), most of them dating from the 1950′s; and in July, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Me., Read More
“His name is Otto,” said the waiter, setting down a two-pound red snapper in front of us.
Otto drew stares from neighboring tables, as well he might. The fish was served upright, curving around the plate like a Chinese dragon, with round, vacant eyes and a ferocious grimace on its face.
Whole fish and Read More
Fresh and Simple Cuisine Is
Gramercy Tavern’s Winning Formula
Several years ago at Gramercy Tavern, I sat next to an elderly bald man in a striped suit. He was eating alone, after kicking off with a martini. He had a three-course lunch: prosciutto and brioche toast, braised lamb with lentils, blueberry tart, plus a Read More
Almost everyone has a story to tell about being caught in a storm, and accounts of storms are as variable as the people who recall them. My own earliest memory of a storm goes back to the 1938 hurricane that devastated much of the New England coast. I was then 10 years old, living in Read More
For the many people, whether tourists or natives, whose favorite
memories of paintings of Maine are largely defined by the work of Winslow Homer
in the 19th century and the Wyeth clan in the 20th, the art of John Walker is
bound to come as something of a shock. Everything traditionally associated with
the beloved Read More
Armed Robbers Hold Up
Tony Madison Ave. Boutique
Madison Avenue’s upscale jewelry shops, their front windows bristling with million-dollar baubles, can be intimidating unless you’re a member of the House of Saud or armed with a handgun, as a trio of robbers who visited Michael Ashton Fine Jewelry at 933 Madison Avenue on July Read More
